Harsh

Famous quotes containing the word harsh:

“And whether life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a Hell

‘Like this harsh world in which I wake to weep,
I know not.”
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

“The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good!”
—Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932)